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A couple of the details seem odd. Your basic retired general mid 1990s would have had his prime flying years in during the Cold War. The Russians shot down the odd US reconaissance plane and may have for all I recall mixed it up with US planes in Korea, but 'vast experience in aerial warfare'?
Aerial warfare training, perhaps. And the rest of the Warsaw Pact got out and about even less. Also the notion of illustrating 8 meters of documentation by spreading his arms. I can manage something under a two-meter stretch. I don't say he didn't offer 2 for 8, but it sounds odd. freelancer (unregistered). Having worked for military subcontracters at the start of my career, I can see someone demanding a certain volume of documentation.
We used to do it all the time. My favorite method of growing documents was to take a schematic, and break it down into a master, and sub-drawings, and then reference back and forth. This way, instead of having one easy-to-read all-on-one-page diagram, it was spread over 20+ pages of sub-assemblies, sub-sub-assemblies, etc. And for an added bonus, we had a photo-finishing shop back then to take nice professional pictures for the manuals, and they used to put the pages on a metal table (sooo close) for photographing. A couple of the details seem odd.
His later involvement with psychoanalysis and his ambivalent, frequently negative attitude toward it is well documented, especially by Johannes Cremerius,.
Your basic retired general mid 1990s would have had his prime flying years in during the Cold War. The Russians shot down the odd US reconaissance plane and may have for all I recall mixed it up with US planes in Korea, but 'vast experience in aerial warfare'? Aerial warfare training, perhaps. And the rest of the Warsaw Pact got out and about even less.
Also the notion of illustrating 8 meters of documentation by spreading his arms. I can manage something under a two-meter stretch. I don't say he didn't offer 2 for 8, but it sounds odd. The Real WTF (TM) is this thought process:. A retired General in 1990 would have flown during the cold war.
(good so far). The Soviet Union had only a few air engagements with the US during the cold war. (starts to fall apart). Therefore, because the Soviet Union only had battles with the USA. He must have either been in Korea or training his whole carrier.
(worse than failure) A good starting for a Ex-Soviet retired general's combat experience is not going to be the USA. ewhac (unregistered). 8 metres is overkill, but 500 pages is pathetically slim.
Were the complete mechanical drawings provided for the simulator cockpit? Were the specifcations for each part of the simulator provided, and how each part that was actually used in the simulator met that specification? Was the thinking of the developers documented along each step of the way - not just the 'how' but the 'why' of every aspect of the system, so that it could be reproduced, repaired, and/or improved by a skilled tech with no previous knowledge of the system? I mean, this is serious sh.t, and the lives of courageous men and women depend not only on the original job having been done well, but the jobs done by everyone else who comes afterward. And they can only do that if they're made part of the original collaborative process.
And, like it or not, that's done via. So, yeah, there's a WTF here, but it's probably not the one you think.
And it may well be several years before it emerges. Schwab. (cs). 8 metres is overkill, but 500 pages is pathetically slim. Were the complete mechanical drawings provided for the simulator cockpit?
Were the specifcations for each part of the simulator provided, and how each part that was actually used in the simulator met that specification? Was the thinking of the developers documented along each step of the way - not just the 'how' but the 'why' of every aspect of the system, so that it could be reproduced, repaired, and/or improved by a skilled tech with no previous knowledge of the system? I mean, this is serious sh.t, and the lives of courageous men and women depend not only on the original job having been done well, but the jobs done by everyone else who comes afterward. And they can only do that if they're made part of the original collaborative process. And, like it or not, that's done via. So, yeah, there's a WTF here, but it's probably not the one you think.
And it may well be several years before it emerges. Schwab I think they were providing the documentation for the software that ran on the flight simulator hardware. I'm willing to bet that they had no part in actually creating the hardware, putting it together, etc.
Their extent of it was probably reading from /dev/joystick. Considering that the pilots who 'flew' it raved about it, I'd say they did a good job. Henry (unregistered). Isn't this why the appedix was created? Aka 'This program is written in C, please see appendix A for the complete specifications of the C programming language.
The program is written for a x386 processor, please see appendix B for the complete specifications' Maybe not with intention, but this is actually a good point. Fighter airplanes are in use for many decades, so in (say) 25 years, it might be quite difficult to find the specification of the version of C that has been used for the project. BitTwiddler (unregistered).
First of all, a country's people does not neccessarily have to agree with it's government. That's why he (Stefan Olsson) wrote that post in the first place. Second, last year our socialist government was replaced by a liberal government, so no, we don't have a socialist government. Besides, which I stated in my first point, I didn't agree with the previous government anyway (me and many others, obviously), so I actually managed to use the metric system and NOT be a commie at the same time.
Go me!:D I didn't know there was a difference;-). Onaka The Kaka (unregistered). A couple of the details seem odd. Your basic retired general mid 1990s would have had his prime flying years in during the Cold War. The Russians shot down the odd US reconaissance plane and may have for all I recall mixed it up with US planes in Korea, but 'vast experience in aerial warfare'? Aerial warfare training, perhaps. He could have been a 'volunteer' flying for North Korea in the Korean war, or North Vietnam in the Vietnam conflict.
Or he could have been a 'technical advisor' to one of the many arab states to attack Israel during the cold war. Or he could have been assigned to train the Iraqi air force during the Iran-Iraq war.
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Or he could have been an air-to-mud driver dropping bombs in Afghanistan. Well, you get the point. And that doesn't even look at what the various forces of NATO and the Warsaw Pact did during the cold war. You can call it 'training' when there's an aircraft belonging to the other side six inches off your wing tip, or a 688 and an Alfa were playing hide and go seek in the north atlantic. But the crews on both sides sure as hell didn't think of it that way. It's called the cold WAR for a reason. Henry (unregistered).
500 pages of serious documentation, meet 'order-N markov chain generator'. Just start large and ramp the N down to 0 as you approach the required number of pages, and it'll fade nicely out into random gibberish. My math teacher when I was in 9th grade told me a perhaps-apocryphal story of one of his classmates in college. They were in a class where the instructor didn't really grade fairly, and put a lot of weight into how well he liked you. Said classmate was one of the instructor's 'good' students, so always got good grades. The essay final for the class ran around, and he started writing.
He wrote a page and a half of the essay, then wrote out the entire lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner, then completed the essay. No comments on the graded work. TravisO (unregistered). They were in a class where the instructor didn't really grade fairly, and put a lot of weight into how well he liked you. Said classmate was one of the instructor's 'good' students, so always got good grades.
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The essay final for the class ran around, and he started writing. He wrote a page and a half of the essay, then wrote out the entire lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner, then completed the essay. No comments on the graded work. As one of the 'good' students, I got away with that in a high-school social studies class. First of all, a country's people does not neccessarily have to agree with it's government. That's why he (Stefan Olsson) wrote that post in the first place. Second, last year our socialist government was replaced by a liberal government, so no, we don't have a socialist government.
Besides, which I stated in my first point, I didn't agree with the previous government anyway (me and many others, obviously), so I actually managed to use the metric system and NOT be a commie at the same time. Go me!:D I didn't know there was a difference;-) Well, at least here in Sweden, they're quite the opposite of each other. If socialists are Nod then liberals are GDI (sorry, I just played the C&C3 demo:P ). ceegh (unregistered). Hmm, don't look now, but there's commies just north of you.
In Canada we use meters more than we use feet. I actually find myself using 'feet' more than meters these days mostly because of all the time I spent with my dad while renovating my house. He still refuses to acknowledge the metric system any more than he has to. Whenever I wanted to needle him a little after he gave me a measurement (in feet) for something I'd say 'I went to school in the Trudeau era. Can you give me that in real measurements?' 'The metric system is the tool of the devil!
Why my car gets four rods to the hog's head and that's the way I like it!' - Abe Simpson.
Will (unregistered).
Reinhard Heydrich had a similar opinion of Sandberger. Six weeks after the war began Heydrich, the head of the security police and later mastermind of the extermination of the Jews, appointed Sandberger to head the 'immigrant center' in Gdingen, the present-day city of Gdynia, Poland.
Ethnic Germans living in the Baltics had to be brought home to the Reich, while Jews and Poles were to be deported to the General Government. Sandberger proved to be effective in his new position. He was later involved in the deportation of Jews in Strasbourg, France and, because he was clearly trustworthy, was informed early on, in the spring of 1941, of the Nazis' plans to launch an offensive against the Soviet Union. What happened in the following four years under Sandberger's command is documented in the minutes of the Nuremberg Trials, as well as on thousands of pages kept in German, Russian, Estonian and Italian archives.
The documents describe nothing less than the execution of communists, the mass shooting of Jews and Roma and the last days at the headquarters of the SS's foreign intelligence service. The trail of blood that Sandberger left behind during his campaign through Europe has since dried up. The facts are safely locked away in bundles of files and on computer hard drives. What remained forgotten, until his death on March 30 of this year, was the culprit himself. 'I Wasn't Heavily Involved'.
Zitat von symewinston How come he was free, if he was a criminal? He was already sentenced to death in Nuremberg than reprieved and later released with the help of his influential family and loyal friends.
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Because of the first trial he could not have been brought to court again unless he will be accused for crimes which did not play any role in the first lawsuit. After the collapse of Soviet Union it should have been no problem to find new incriminating evidence against him in the archives there. Zitat von symewinston I read the Hannah Arendt report (also available in book form) of the trial of Eichmann and in it she mentions how reluctant were the Austrian and West German governments in prosecuting Nazi criminals and how lenient they were on those subjected to trial. Also many former Nazis simply continued in government bureacracies.
The same happened after the end of East Germany, many STASI members got jobs in the Police and other governmental agencies. I think that is more an exception than a rule. People who worked for the Stasi officially did not get any jobs in police or other departments run by the state. Those who spied on their colleagues, friends and neighbours were luckier a lot of them could continue working in state department especially persons who were quite valuable because of their extraordinary knowledge, coaches of top athletes, for example. That is quite normal. Consider that many top officer regard the dissolving of Iraq Army just after the war as great mistake.